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Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants

This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]


Laga - Sep 17, 2009 11:59:35 am PDT #1508 of 8624
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

If anyone can catch a rerun of Inside the Actors Studio with the voices of Family Guy, I highly recommend it. It was hysterical.

I never laughed so hard at that show. I had to keep rewinding to see what I'd missed.


sj - Sep 17, 2009 12:29:36 pm PDT #1509 of 8624
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I had to keep rewinding to see what I'd missed.

Me too! The actors were so quick about answering questions in character.


Aims - Sep 17, 2009 2:48:14 pm PDT #1510 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Glee was awesome. I died with "Josh Groban loves a blowsy alcoholic." Bwah!!

JG always seemed so ... I don't know - white bread, for lack of a better. I seriously can't thinkof a better descriptor right now, I have the dumb. But I'm wondering if A) he doesn't have at least some sense of humor about his image and B) is really bent on the inside. Barb, I might need the lowdown and JG's private life.


Barb - Sep 17, 2009 3:15:12 pm PDT #1511 of 8624
“Not dead yet!”

Both A & B are completely on the money, Aims. He has a huge sense of awareness of how he's perceived and an even bigger sense of humor about that image. And he has a seriously bent and far to the left of twisted sense of humor. The one thing he's always struck me as taking completely seriously is the music. Anything else is fair game.

Here's a good indicator of his sense of humor. (And it totally fits in this thread, since it's def. comedy.)

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Dana - Sep 17, 2009 3:23:54 pm PDT #1512 of 8624
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

He was in "I'm Fucking Matt Damon" too, wasn't he?


Aims - Sep 17, 2009 3:34:51 pm PDT #1513 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.

He was in "I'm Fucking Ben Affleck" which I just watched and have tears coming down my face.


Jesse - Sep 17, 2009 4:37:01 pm PDT #1514 of 8624
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Singing Bel Biv Devoe! He should look ridiculous!

That was BRILLIANT.

I saw him being interviewed on the local cable show about Broadway, and he said they call him "Triple Threat," but you have to sing-song it in a falsetto.

FYI.


Fred Pete - Sep 18, 2009 4:29:04 am PDT #1515 of 8624
Ann, that's a ferret.

First, apologies if I'm incoherent today. Early this morning, Rigatoni took a sharp turn for the much worse. He's still alive, but barely.

On to last night's Office. Okay, the refrigerator box was a cheap laugh. And not even unexpected. But effective because so perfectly executed.

The ep as a whole rode that fine line between realistic, entertaining, and disturbing. Michael seemed to cross lines even he rarely crosses, though for very Michael reasons.

I predict Andy will do something stupid because of his sexual insecurity before the season ends. Probably involving group sex.

That was Michael's car that Stanley destroyed, right?

An ep centered around the interns would have been nice, but obviously that won't happen. I suspect none of them will end up with Dunder Mifflin permanently, not least because the cast is already too big.


beekaytee - Sep 18, 2009 7:58:34 am PDT #1516 of 8624
Compassionately intolerant

While I highly recommend watching the whole episode, this clip of Josh Groban on Nevermind the Buzzcocks perfectly illustrates his view of his own image.

Throughout the show, he's self-effacing, charming and down right funny.

I was never a fan of his music, but I love watching him do comedy.


Barb - Sep 18, 2009 8:05:25 am PDT #1517 of 8624
“Not dead yet!”

Yeah, my favorite bit was A man and his hand.